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Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
October 5-8, Montréal, Québec, Canada
We are excited to announce that 2023’s Keystone DH Conference will be held June 16-17th at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Digital Humanities in Baltimore, MD. Keystone DH is an annual conference and a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic. It is the organizers’ hope that the event will primarily be in-person, with additional online accessibility for those who cannot be present.
Call for Papers:
The eighteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will be held virtually on May 19-20, 2023. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussions, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes. Presenters may submit longer or more complex versions (8,000 words maximum) to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association. All presenters must be members of the GPA. The deadline for receipt of registration fees is April 30, 2023.
Call for Papers: Gastrofeminism
Editors: Dr Debarati Sen (University of Houston), Dr Ishita Dey (South Asian University) and Dr Sohni Chakrabarti (University of St Andrews)
The field of popular culture studies is wide open and has drawn a lot of academic attention for several years now. Popular culture and gender interconnect in a myriad of ways, and their interplay can lead to outcomes which can be disabling and/or enabling. Popular culture, as a significant social tool, with mediums such as images, films, TV serials, advertisements, music, literature, comic books, animations, video games, popular news, social media etc., plays an extremely critical role in constructing gendered roles and norms, as also helping deconstruct them.
MadLit 2023 Call for Papers
MadLit Conference 2023: Ephemerals
The University of Wisconsin–Madison English department (Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, English Language and Linguistics, and Creative Writing) will bring together graduate student researchers, educators, and writers to discuss critical and/or creative works that think through the theme and metaphor of ephemerals.
Call for Chapters: Beyond Arrival: Performing Indianness in the Caribbean
Edited by Christopher L. Ballengee and Darrell Gerohn Baksh
We invite proposals for chapters for the edited volume Beyond Arrival: Performing Indianness in the Caribbean. Proposals should include: 1) an abstract of around 400 words that clearly indicates how the proposed essay relates to one or more themes of the volume, and 2) a current C.V.
Read below for more details about the project and for details regarding submission.
CFP: The Agency of Plants in the Literature and the Arts of the French- and English-Speaking Worlds (19th c. – 21st c.)
Université Paris Cité, LARCA & Catholic University of Paris
15-16 June 2023
Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2023
International Brecht Society
Call for Papers
German Studies Annual Conference
5-8 October 2023 (Montréal, Quebec)
Of Robbery and Revolution: 100 Years of Im Dickicht der Städte and Trommeln in der Nacht
The E. E. Cummings Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2023 American Literature Association conference in Boston (http://americanliteratureassociation.org). We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of Cummings’ life and/or work. Proposals that touch upon the following topics will be especially welcome:
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.
We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays.
Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.
https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/
'Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories'
Victorian Popular Fiction Association 15th Annual Conference
12–14 July 2023
Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK
Keynote Speakers
Professor Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey, UK)
Dr Adrian S. Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US)
Professor Nathalie Vanfasse (Aix-Marseille Université, FR)
Call for Papers
Utpictura18. Call for papers. Issue on Shakespeare
https://utpictura18.univ-amu.fr/rubriques
Coordination of the volume by:
Jean-Louis Claret, Aix-Marseille Université, LERMA
Jean-Jacques Chardin, Strasbourg Universioty
Anne-Valérie Dulac, Sorbonne Université, VALE
Estelle Rivier-Arnaud, Université Grenoble-Alpes, ILCEA4
Editor Leah McCormack (University of South Dakota) invites prospective contributions from experienced professors of creative writing from around the world for Creative Strategies: A Multi-Genre Guide to Writing Feedback on Student Manuscripts, which is under contract to be delivered to Routledge by December 2024 as part of the Routledge Studies in Creative Writing book series.
CFP: Queer Comics of Color for Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference
Call for papers for a roundtable session organized by Joanna Davis-McElligatt and Margaret Galvan for the Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference on July 27-29, 2023 at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX (https://comicsstudies.org/2023-cfp/).
POST-PANDEMIC FUTURES: CULTURAL MEETING POINTS
Hybrid Conference: Maynooth Campus and Zoom
Organized by Loïc Bourdeau (Maynooth University)
and Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast)
OCTOBER 5-6, 2023
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Eivind Engebretsen, Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Science (University of Oslo)
Lucille Toth, Dance Scholar & Assistant Professor of French (Ohio State University)
FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Friday 25th to Sunday 27th August , 2023.
Bader College, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK
“That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it…and it's worked out pretty well so far…” - Iron Man (Favreau, 2008)
This special issue of the ZAA: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture will explore the aesthetics and politics of psychotherapy from the point of view of Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies. In particular, we seek contributions that fall into at least one of the following three strands:
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE
Media in America, America in Media
23-24 March 2023
Mind, Body and Earth
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance
We are writing about a call for contributors to an exciting new series at Bloomsbury. Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance aims to capture the innovations women have made to the performing arts in their historical, geographical, and disciplinary diversity. This series seeks to broaden, celebrate, and recover historical awareness of these performance-based artmakers and their contributions; as such, it will showcase innovative, intersectional feminist historiographical approaches along with a history of women’s innovation in the field.
In a 2019 piece in The Guardian, Indian writer-activist Arundhati Roy says of the space, created by the literary: “It’s a fragile place in some ways, but an indestructible one. When it’s broken, we rebuild it. Because we need shelter. I very much like the idea of literature that is needed.” This idea of literature as a fragile shelter that needs constant rebuilding throws open the question of the literary communities. What is the nature of this community of readers and writers constructed by the act of literature? How can literature have a purchase on public culture, if at all? With the onset of social media, can we see literature in the 21st century as a communitarian exercise anymore?
Transgression
The Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Conference
April 17th
University of California Los Angeles
Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2023, 5:00pm (PST)
This edited volume will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students. This project has been motivated by the recognition that, “From their founding, universities introduced class differences to cities in ways that only intensified as the institutions became key platforms for social and economic
The Beat Studies Association welcomes papers on any aspect of Beat writing, including centennial writers (Philip Whalen, Carolyn Cassidy, and Norman Mailer). Papers on the impact of Beat writers on subsequent writers and on the relevance of countercultural poetics to the current moment will also be welcome. Representations of writers and texts in televisual and cinematic media and ecocritical approaches are also possibilities. Send 100 word abstract, title, and a few lines identifying yourself to John Whalen-Bridge at ellwbj@nus.edu.sg.
The University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Association (MuGSA) has announced a call for abstracts for its 2023 Research Symposium. The symposium topic is Music and Language. We invite any 300-word abstracts for papers that fall within this broad sphere of scholarship. Scholars from fields other than music are encouraged to participate in this interdisciplinary symposium.
The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, January 15th. We are anticipating notification of acceptance/rejection by no later than Sunday, February 5th.
If you could circulate the attached poster amongst those in your department who may be interested, we would very much appreciate your help.
American Literature Association Annual Conference - Boston May 25-28, 2023
The Sea in American Literature
deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023
The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites submissions for a panel on The Sea in American Literature. Potential subjects for this panel range from Melville and Richard Henry Dana to Stephen Crane, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Barry Lopez, and Jonathan Bayliss, but others will occur to you as well. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 25, 2023. Please indicate if you have AV requirements.
The Jonathan Bayliss Society will sponsor a roundtable panel at the 34th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 25-28, 2023, at the Westin Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.
Narrative Form in American Fiction
deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023
International Conference on "Exile"
(Online and in-person)
2-4 May 2023
Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Sousse, Tunisia
Exile as a broad term denotes a force of (un)voluntary escape from one’s land to a foreign space, and it connotes a sense of estrangement and nostalgia. Exile in literature, culture studies and linguistics is more problematized, as it takes different forms and orientations. Indeed, Exile negotiates complex issues related to historical events that have marked human existence such as the Industrial Revolution, the two world wars etc…
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our March 10 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.
Currents in the Periodical Press (Deadline Extension)
2023 RSVP Conference
Caen, France, July 6-9, 2023 (with some hybrid & online options)